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Invention vs. Innovation — Idea vs. Execution

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Chris F. Masse

–> As a background, first, re-read Mike Linksvayer. –> Nathaniel Whittemore and Don Dodge. P.S.: Happy New Year 2011.

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged Business, companies, creativity, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, execution, IDEAS, innovation, inventions, startups | 1 Comment

Steve Blank: There is a fine line between hallucination and vision. – [VIDEO]

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

“A startup is a temporary organization that is designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

Posted in Business, Business & Economic Models, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged Business, business model, companies, Customer Development, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, hallucination, startups, Steve Blank, vision | Leave a comment

How much are startup options worth?

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Chris F. Masse

The definitive math.

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Finance | Tagged Business, companies, corporate finance, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Finance, startup options, startups, stock options, stocks | Leave a comment

CrowdCast CEO Mat Fogarty on how his company is helping businesses make better-informed decisions [VIDEO]

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Good questions, good answers: Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com Download this post to watch the video —if your feed reader does not show it to you. External Links: – CrowdCast – CFO Prediction Market – Matt Fogarty’s twitter … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Business, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence - Wisdom Of Crowds, Exchange & Market Management, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged Betting, boss, bosses, Business, businesses, Collective Forecasting, Collective Intelligence, companies, corporate prediction markets, corporations, CrowdCast, decisions, employees, enterprise prediction markets, enterprises, internal prediction markets, Mat Fogarty, prediction markets, Predictions, private prediction markets, workers | Leave a comment

Big business’s support for the Obama administration’s health care reform is driven by “naked self-interest.” — Dixit Cato’s Michael Cannon.

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Employers for a Healthy Economy coalition has released a new anti-health care reform ad: Facts about the health care bill:

Posted in Business, Politics | Tagged big business, Cato Institute, companies, corporations, Employers for a Healthy Economy, health care, health care reform, Michael Cannon, Michael F. Cannon, US Chamber Of Commerce, US health care reform | Leave a comment

Why Google don’t want to hire research scientist David Pennock

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Mercury News: A recruiter who left Google last year says that the company [= Google] had maintained a “do not touch” list of companies including Genentech and Yahoo, whose employees were not to be wooed to the Internet search giant. … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Jobs - Careers - Hiring, People | Tagged Apple, companies, David Pennock, employees, Genentech, Google, hiring, Yahoo! | Leave a comment

A strategic approach for organizations which are using Twitter to connect with their audiences, developed by Ogilvy’s 360 Degree Digital Influence group.

Posted on April 3, 2009 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Information Technology, Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce, Inventions & Innovations | Tagged companies, corporate reputation management, crisis management, customer relations, event coverage, issue advocacy, Ogilvy, Ogilvy's 360 Degree Digital Influence, organizations, product promotion and sales, Twitter | Leave a comment

Yet another prediction market newbie who should be meeting with Robin Hanson one on one to get a little injection about conditional prediction markets and how they could be useful for BOTH private decision makers AND public policy makers.

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Lewis Sheperd (the Chief Technology Officer of Microsoftâ€™s Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments): Indeed, it appears to me that [prediction markets] are growing not from corporate or government use, but mostly organically from within academia, stock-futures circles and political-junkie … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis (Meta), Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Consulting, Exchanges & Markets | Tagged AND, chief technology officer, Collective Decision Making, companies, corporate prediction markets, enterprise prediction markets, event derivative markets, event derivatives, General Electric, Google, governments, Harvard, Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments, internal prediction markets, Lewis Sheperd, Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology, Microsoftâ€™s Institute for Advanced Technology in Gove, prediction markets, private prediction markets, Robin Hanson | 2 Comments

Starting May 26, 2008, any British company using a brand ambassador “falsely representing oneself as a consumer”, or any British blogger failing to disclose he/she has accepted money to write about a product, will face a fine or prison sentence. No kidding.

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Chris F. Masse

Posted in Prediction Journalism, Regulations | Tagged Ambassador, bloggers, companies, disclosure | 4 Comments

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